BURNABY, B.C. — Activists who were part of the Clayoquot (clah-CWOT) Sound anti-logging protests in British Columbia in the early 1990s say they plan to be arrested at an anti-pipeline protest near Vancouver.
Kinder Morgan's plans to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline have become the focus for anti-pipeline protests, and at least 90 people have been arrested since last week for violating a court injunction.
More than 800 people were arrested during a blockade of logging trucks into Clayoquot Sound, on Vancouver Island, in a summer of protests dubbed the War in the Woods.
Valerie Langer, who was an organizer with Friends of Clayoquot Sound at the time, says she and two other women who were involved in the movement will be on Burnaby Mountain today.
Langer says the trio plans to cross the police line and refuse to move, which she expects will end in her arrest.
She says the Kinder Morgan survey work has become a breaking point for pipeline opponents, who feel they have been failed by regulators and the courts.
